[Ads-l] Heard on re-run of The Office

[Wilson Gray]

> I would have to be much more careful/precise than usual to distinguish
>  "tennis-shoes" from "tennyshoes."

Exactly! If I put my mind and vocal apparatus to it, I can say "[tĕnĭs]
shoes," but I normally say "[tĭnĭ]shoes."

On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 10:46 PM, Dave Hause <dwhause at cablemo.net> wrote:

> I would have to be much more careful/precise than usual to distinguish
> "tennis-shoes" from "tennyshoes."
> Dave Hause
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Wilson Gray
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2018 6:21 PM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Heard on re-run of The Office
>
> "tennyshoes"
>>
>
> Exactly!
>
> An Australian friend once told me, about forty years ago, that the
> Aussie/Ozzy term is "sand shoes." That struck me as unlikely, but...
>
> Youneverknow.
>
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 2:38 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > On Feb 27, 2018, at 8:03 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>> >
>> > For some of us, all tennis shoes are sneakers, but not all sneakers are
>> > tennis shoes.
>>
>> As illustrated for me by high-tops in particular.  Sneakers but definitely
>> not tennis shoes.
>> >
>> > On Feb 26, 2018 11:06 PM, "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> "She gets the 'whitest _sneakers_' award because she always has the
>> whitest
>> >> _tennis shoes_."
>> >>
>> >> This is the second time that I've come across the mixing of regional
>> >> lexical-variants in a single sentence. I'm starting to lose sleep!😳
>> >> --
>> >> -Wilson
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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